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«Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.»
«Pride and dignity would belong to women if only men would leave them alone»
«Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely-read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.»
Author: Hesketh Pearson
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«Labor wants also pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or useful - to be treated with dignity and respect as brother and sister»
«One of the best temporary cures for pride and affection is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.»
«Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.»
«OBLIVION, n. The state or condition in which the wicked cease from struggling and the dreary are at rest. Fame's eternal dumping ground. Cold storage for high hopes. A place where ambitious authors meet their works without pride and their betters without envy. A dormitory without an alarm clock.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«Pride and poverty don't get along, but often live together.»
«Not everybody aspires to be a bank president or a nuclear scientist, but everybody wants to do something with one's life that will give him pride and a sense of accomplishment.»
«Pride and jealousy there was in his eye, for his life had been spent in asserting rights which were constantly liable to invasion; and the prompt, fiery, and resolute disposition of the man, had been kept constantly upon the alert by the circumstances of his situation.»
Author: Sir Walter Scott
(Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet)
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alert, asserting, disposition, fiery, invasion, liable, Pride and, prompt, prompter, resolute
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